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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst
index 4058ebe..0b9acd0 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst
@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ complaint you get while you are still learning Python::
>>> while True print('Hello world')
File "<stdin>", line 1
while True print('Hello world')
- ^
+ ^^^^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
-The parser repeats the offending line and displays a little 'arrow' pointing at
-the earliest point in the line where the error was detected. The error is
-caused by (or at least detected at) the token *preceding* the arrow: in the
+The parser repeats the offending line and displays little 'arrow's pointing
+at the token in the line where the error was detected. The error may be
+caused by the absence of a token *before* the indicated token. In the
example, the error is detected at the function :func:`print`, since a colon
(``':'``) is missing before it. File name and line number are printed so you
know where to look in case the input came from a script.